The Yin (Chinese: 殷; pinyin: Yīn), officially the Great Yin (大殷), was a short-lived Empire during China's Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period which...
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Chinese surname Shang dynasty, also known as the Yin dynasty Yinxu or Yin, the Shang dynasty capital now in ruins Yin (Five Dynasties period), a short-lived...
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Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period (Chinese: 五代十國) was an era of political upheaval and division in Imperial China from 907 to 979. Five dynastic...
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The Shang dynasty (Chinese: 商朝; pinyin: Shāng cháo), also known as the Yin dynasty (殷代; Yīn dài), was a Chinese royal dynasty that ruled in the Yellow...
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Later Han dynasty (AD 947–951) during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. Later Zhou dynasty (AD 951–960) during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms...
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Former Shu (907–925) Rulers of Min (Ten Kingdoms) (909–945) and Yin (Five Dynasties period) (943–945) This disambiguation page lists articles associated...
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imperial dynasty of China that existed from 947 to 951. It was the fourth of the Five Dynasties during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in Chinese...
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Ma Chu (redirect from Southern Chu dynasty)
a dynastic state of China that existed from 907 to 951. It is counted as one of the Ten Kingdoms during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period of...
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Sixteen Kingdoms (redirect from Period of the Sixteen Kingdoms)
Northern Dynasties in the period that followed the Sixteen Kingdoms. Classical Chinese historians called the period the "Sixteen Kingdoms of the Five Barbarians"...
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Taijitu (redirect from Yin and yang symbol)
harmoniously arranged, the Four Seasons proceed through them. The Five Phases are simply yin and yang; yin and yang are simply the Supreme Polarity; the Supreme Polarity...
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Wuxing (Chinese philosophy) (redirect from Chinese five elements)
of the new dynasty (Earth, Wood, Metal, Fire, and Water). From the Qin dynasty onward, most Chinese dynasties invoked the theory of the Five Elements to...
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Onmyōji (section Introduction of the yin-and-yang five phases philosophy and the establishment of the Bureau of Onmyō)
Chinese concept of yin and yang and five phases, which began in the Xia and Shang dynasties and was almost completed in the Zhou dynasty, that all phenomena...
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period of disunity ensued known as the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. Five officially recognised dynasties ruled consecutively in the north (with...
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Yin and yang (English: /jɪn/, /jæŋ/), also yinyang or yin-yang, is a concept that originated in Chinese philosophy, describing an opposite but interconnected...
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Southern Han (redirect from Southern Han dynasty)
(Chinese: 越), was a dynastic state of China and one of the Ten Kingdoms that existed during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. It was located on...
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Zhao Guangyin (category Later Liang (Five Dynasties) government officials)
China's Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. He was the chancellor during Later Tang. He was a son of the Tang dynasty chancellor Zhao Yin and younger...
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Western Zhou (redirect from Western Zhou Period)
a period of Chinese history corresponding roughly to the first half of the Zhou dynasty. It began when King Wu of Zhou overthrew the Shang dynasty at...
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of Ma Yin, the founding ruler of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period Chu state. One of her sons, Ma Xisheng, later succeeded Ma Yin. It is...
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Qin dynasty (221–206 BC) and a warring interregnum known as the Chu–Han Contention (206–202 BC), and it was succeeded by the Three Kingdoms period (220–280 AD)...
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School of Naturalists (redirect from School of Yin Yang)
systematized two current theories during the Warring States period: Yin-Yang and the Five Elements/Phases (wood, fire, earth, metal, and water). His theory...
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of monarchical dynasties. Besides those established by the dominant Han ethnic group or its spiritual Huaxia predecessors, dynasties throughout Chinese...
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imperial dynasty and the fourth and last of the Southern dynasties during the Northern and Southern dynasties period. Following the Liang dynasty, the Chen...
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under the Sui brought the Northern and Southern dynasties era to a close, ending a prolonged period of political division since the War of the Eight...
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Old History of the Five Dynasties (Chinese: 舊五代史; pinyin: Jiù Wǔdài Shǐ) was an official history mainly focusing on Five Dynasties era (907–960), which...
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Tang dynasty A Tang dynasty woman A Tang dynasty woman Woman wearing huadian on forehead and mianye, Five dynasties period. In the Song dynasty, huadian...
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Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period Chu, Later Liang, Later Tang, Later Jin, Later Han, and Later Zhou, states, as well as the Song dynasty. He...
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Hanfu (redirect from Han-dynasty-style robes)
the Qin dynasty, colours used in the sumptuary laws of the Han Chinese held symbolic meaning, based on the Taoist Five Elements Theory and the yin and yang...
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painters that lived during the Ming dynasty. The group consists of Shen Zhou (1427–1509), Wen Zhengming (1470–1559), Tang Yin (1470–1523), and Qiu Ying (c.1494–c...
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is yang 陽, the retainer is yin 陰; the father is yang, the son is yin; the husband is yang, the wife is yin. The way of yin cannot proceed any where on...
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Seal was lost around the end of the Tang dynasty (618–907) or during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period (907–960). In 221 BC, the Seal was created...
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